DEATH SQUAD
In collaboration with Sniester
Friday, June 5, 2026

DEATH SKATEBOARD clearly hasn't had enough of redefining boundaries; they're just getting started. Tim De Gieter and Sigfried Burroughs return to PAARD on June 5, 2026, with their third full-length album, The Change Is Me , a rollercoaster ride that can only be described as the unstable lovechild of witch house, hip-hop, industrial dream pop, and stadium rock that can't decide whether to watch the world burn or shout from the rooftops for us to save it.

Tim and Sigfried aren’t just breaking genre boundaries; they’re breaking out of their own annual cycle, a path they envisioned for themselves when forming the band in 2020. Until now, the duo and the band had set out to chronicle their “journey to becoming better” by releasing an album each year: Year Zero (2020), Year One (2022), and most recently, Year Two (2024). After spending eight months in 2024 and 2025 writing, recording, producing, and mixing Year Three , the band completely discarded the finished album. Playing shows while simultaneously going through the mixing process of Year Three created something of a disconnect – the people they were when writing that album and the people they became by playing shows were no longer the same. "We are human beings with flaws and strengths, and we realized we had to accept that. That's both bleak and liberating. When you're so focused on self-improvement, you can't even give yourself credit for how far you've come," the band explains. "This project is meant to be a document of us and the human condition, not a self-improvement manual that would keep us all stuck in what may or may not have happened to us, or what we caused in the past."

Instead, DOODSESKADER opted to embark on a new, week-long creative journey in Tim's own Much Luv Studio with one goal in mind: to create an album that captures who they are right now. For the first time in years, they wrote everything together in the same room, and the process of bringing The Change Is Me to life was documented by Diana Lungu in their latest documentary, Now I Know You See Me.